West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-09


tinuously sickly and forever catch
ing cold; they avoid every draught
and are frightened at every change
of weather. but somehow they man
age to reach old age, preserving
meanwhile moderate health and sur
viving a thousand shocks that are
fatal to vigorous and robust con-
stitution. Soft is with regulations.
We meet men universally acknowl-
edged guilty OF many dishonorable
acts which, while not hlazoned to
the world, are spoken Of daily in
private conversation by a large cir
clein every part ofthe State; they are
men whose character for truth and
fair-dealing is sickly and always all
ing; they are afraid Ofjust criticism
and too timid to do right lest their
motives be impugned; they spend
half their time trying to explain
their conduct, trying to quit scan
dial and silence suspicion, but some
how they manage to escape expos
ure, and to obtain a good share OF
worldly success, preserving mean
while a sort of precarious respecta-
bility and surviving a thousand
shocks that are fatal to honorable
and manly men.
Men who are not strong in the
consciousness of the rectitude OF
their own motives hesitate to do
many things they wish to do Tor
fear some thief will falsely accuse
them of stealing. God bless the
men who have sufficient confidence
in their own integrity to defy the
ISLANDERS of venal newspapers and
disregard the senseless chatter OF
Of ignorant, small-fry editors.
Little minds cannot look on the
greatest exploits of big minds with
out suffering a captious and jealous
malignity to detract from their
merit.
A few days ago man was men
toned to us as 1.-The most promi-
nent candidate for Congress" in his
district. The gentleman speaking
to us, almost in the same breath, re-
marked: There are at least 20 per
sons who can swear to certainly 3
and probably a dozen crimes he has
committed, any one of which would
put him in the penitentiary and
were it not that the railroad man
ayers want him, his candidacy
would be laughed at"
1t invariably happens that when
we hear of man in any part of this
State, of patriotic purpose and pre-
eminently qualified for the Legisla-
ture, upon inquiry we find the rail-
road politicians and their strikers
industriously lying about him and
bounding him down.
The men who, in every contest in
the past, have taken sides with the
railroad managers and against the
interest of the people are not the
ones most likely to render efficient
service to the public in Congress or
in the Legislature.
II the free-pass bribery was not
useful to the railroad managers,
WHY was it their lobby made such
efforts to defeat the bill to prevent
passes Why do railroads give
passes to every Congressman, Legis-
lator, Governor and Judge who will
accept the bride
We hear a great deal from Ger
tain class of politicians about, 1.-The
Importance of organizing the party"
We have never heard or seen one
word from any of them abOut,-the
Importance of the principles of the
party. Are these organizers"
ready to pledge the party to give
our home traffic the benefit of the
principles Of the interstate COM
merce bill If a bold man Of
brains would stump the State for
the propositions advocated in these
columns, our organizers" would be
swept out of Office. BY Organiza-
tiOn they mean, the substitution Of
deception and treachery for discus
cussiOn and argument.